Posted on 07/25/2018 7:05:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
A Magic Eight Ball is more accurate...................
Experts only in their own mind.
“heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
Look up. Birds are heavier-than-air flying machines. Arrogance makes you stupid.
“Experts only in their own mind.”
So-called experts are in a perpetual, classic circle-jerk with one another, but they are consistent - consistently wrong.
I suppose to avoid controversy... the author has left out the biggest elephant in the room, global warming predictions vs reality over the last 40 or so years. Al Gore claimed in 2008 that the Arctic would be ice free within 5 years. He made numerous other claims in his 2006 movie, none of which have come true. When confronted Gore said it is because his movie caused “green house gas” emissions to decline. Even this his is another lie, fossil fuel use worldwide has continued to increase with no measurable impact on the climate.
Thanks for posting.
LEAN processing.
Global Warming.
Stock markets.
Take away that people are by in large, stupid.
And we are all people.
The experts generally have a political agenda or mantra that is enabled by the biased media....a perfect storm of liars, inaccuracies, and incompetence....sort of like hellary et al.....
An expert is someone who has carefully collected all the data he can to back up his opinion
“Who wants to hear actors talk?”
He didn’t even mention Al Gore!
Experts
Trump can never win the polls show
The Edsel will be a big hit
The Titanic is unsinkable
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experts tell us we can’t trust anyone-
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
Darryl Zanuck, executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946
“Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.”
Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
“Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet’s continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”
Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995
...and solipsism makes you arrogant.
The topic of this thread appears every few years, and this one is among the best and most extensive that I recall seeing. I've saved it electronically, but "progress" always conspires to make "permanent" records unusable without exception. But I digress.
By coincidence, just this morning as happens every year, a flock of several hundred Canada Geese flew directly over my home.
I am not a bird watcher, I have never owned a bird. But I am aware that, aside from cockroaches, birds are among the most common, and oldest biological examples in earths long history.
I do observe birds at every opportunity because, for me, they are among the most fascinating and persuasive examples of proof of God's existence.
I am also a lifelong aficionado of air travel, and know more than the average Joe about aerodynamics and aviation generally.
Perhaps all birds have the ability, but due to their long necks, that ability is most easily seen in geese. When flying their bodies must move slightly up and down just by flapping their wings, buy their heads remain stationary their entire flight. The long necks compensate instinctively, for body motion. Living biological gyroscopes.
I will assume that most Freepers are familiar with the concept and operation of gyroscopes and the evolution of inertial navigation. Science and technology have allowed inertial navigation to achieve exquisite accuracies. And so, evidently, have geese.
“The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.”
Speaking of expert opinion, around the turn of the twentieth century, the head of the US Patent Office suggested abolishing the agency because everything that could be invented had been invented.
I’ll close with the expert witness of Auguste Comte, French philosopher and founder of sociology, who, in 1835, boldly declared, “It is impossible for any scientist to ever know what the stars are made of.” It was just a few years after his death that astronomers employed prisms to break down starlight into emissions of known elements.
But, as Red Buttons might have said, “Madilyn O’Hare never got a dinner.”
When movies arrived, the press needed some means to discriminate between Broadway actors and film actors.
Time magazine, which debuted around that time, called Hollywood’s bunch “cinemactors.” It didn’t, you notice, catch on.
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